The Internet is a powerful tool. It is unfortunate that people use it to slander and bad mouth individuals. I think the comments the students made could have been kept to themselves in a private conversation and not made public. We all have, from time to time, had classes that we hated. It may or may not have been the professor's fault. I have had such a class. However, I didn't blame the professor. I felt she was a brilliant person who loved the subject she was teaching. But I felt the class was taught in such a boring manner. I did not do well in this class. But when I thought about it, I didn't blame the professor for my shortcomings. I turned it around and asked what I could have done to get a better grade.
I felt the University was correct in disciplining the students. Students should exhibit proper conduct when representing or speaking about the school in public. However, I do have to agree with one comment that was made, "I think that the group shouldn't have affected a mature educator confident in her abilities." Students will say nasty things. But if an educator really knows her/his subject, it shouldn't matter what people say. They either like the class or they done. We must work to do whatever it takes to get through a boring course. We are there to learn.
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But how do we reconcile that with with the issue of free speech? As nasty as the comments seem, didn't students have the right to voice them in a forum that really had nothing to do with the university? Would the situation be different if the comments were written in the school newspaper?
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